Man's fake knife attack to impress date backfires

A man's staged knife attack to impress his date has backfired after police got involved.

Jeffery Tyler Siegel, 26, took his date Brianne Coots to Craighead Forest Park in Arkansas for a walk when they were jumped by a man carrying a large knife.

In fact, the 'attacker' was Siegel's friend, whose job it was to make Siegel look like a hero.

According to KGO-TV, Siegel stayed behind while Coots ran off and contacted police. To make the attack look real, he self-inflicted cuts onto himself.

However, authorities grew suspicious of the incident when they noticed that Siegel's wounds were shallow.

The man then admitted that the whole attack was a setup.

Coots stated afterwards: "I was definitely very upset. If you want to impress somebody, impress them with the good stuff you can do, I mean you could buy people flowers, have a good job, have a good education."

She apparently told Siegel that she has no intention of meeting up with him again.